I managed to put the two in the bottom 5.25" and above, one space between the other. I thougt, some breeze from the back 12cm fan would reach them this way. (I do not have a CPU fan, that ventilates the air for the back, yet!)

The hotter HDD reached 56C! The other around 46.
The lower was the cooler, it even heated the other above...

Now I have put both HDD-s back. They are in the upper and the middle space, close to each other. I have put a special sponge underneath the lower one, like the dampening sponges.

Using a 5 drive capacity cage from an Acousitcase C6607. (The same guts seem to be in several other cases, including an Antec one.)

Materials are the drive cage, a bit over 1m of round rubber strip and four cable ties. I got the strip from a local rubber goods store (Para Rubber, for those in New Zealand), cost I think $3.80/m. I got 1 m, thinking I'd have lots to spare, but it turned out to be barely enough - and the shop attendant was generous in their measuring, so I recommend more than 1m. The strip is cut into two and turned into two loops, joined with the cable ties.

Advantages:
Tidy
Effective
Cheap
Keeps drive by front air-inlet
Could be adapted for two drives. (An earlier post in this thread shows a very similar mounting in a 4 drive cage, with 2 drives bolted with a gap between them.)

Disadvantages:
In most cases, you can't mount more than two drives like this.
Not all cases have a suitable cage.

Looks good. You can also increase cooling by replacing the bay cover with a suitable piece of scouring pad. (the meshed, flat wafer kind) Your case fan should take care of the rest. Air will enter through the path of least resistance. Doubles as a dust filter too.

Hope that's anti-static carpet there Raise the drive up a notch and you won't need it.

ddd

*edit*

Had a thought Charles. The tabs holding the drive rails have holes underneath. If you could get two strands of bungy (thinner?) through each and tie them off on the outside of the cage, you wouldn't need the rails (or carpet) at all

It's also a 'heavy breather'. Obviously the airflow has to be directed over the HDD somehow. The options would be to tape off the existing upper bay covers (sort of defeats the purpose of the case) or rig up a fan. The NoVibes had a solution for that I believe.

was looking for some stuff to suspend but all i could find was some velcro. here are the results: (click for big1)

this is a sonata II, btw, in case you couldn't tell. Definitely helped a little... i think it actually did more for airflow/hdd temps than it did for reducing vibrations though. when my system is idle, hdd temps stay around 29c.

i decided to try suspending my hard drives and WOW they are so much more quieter!

pics:

it may look like they are touching the front of the case but they aren't. they are being suspended by thin wire which is very bendable, kind of like pipe cleaners. surprisely it holds very well so i'm satisfied

anyone know any programs to check the temperatures of my CPU, hard drive, and vid card?

..anyone know any programs to check the temperatures of my CPU, hard drive, and vid card?

also what temperature should these parts not exceed?

'SpeedFan' will do CPU and HDD (SMART) temps.. also fan adjustments and monitoring. 'Motherboard Monitor (MBM5)' is another useful tool. 'Dtemp' is a HDD (SMART) monitor. For vid card 'ATI Tool' is easy to use (temps and fan adjustments for ATI cards). Not sure about nVidia.

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